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From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters and this is the business.

I realized very early on that in order to get the studios to pay attention,

I need to have something concrete.

And so I decided to make books a big part of my business.

Books have a greater success of going from development to movies.

So, books.

Producer David Heyman remembers discovering the book that changed his career, Harry Potter.

After eight films and more than $8 billion in box office grosses,

Hayman is in the Oscar hunt this year with another big hit, Alfonso Quaron's Gravity.

But first, on the Hollywood news banter,

why an insurance company could help shape the fate of the next fast and furious movie.

Stick around. It's the business from KCRW.

I'm joined by my fellow banterer, John Horn of the Los Angeles Times. Hello, John.

Hello, Kim. So, John, as you know, the death of Paul Walker

at the end of November in a very dramatic, horrifying car crash was a terrible story. And the great

deal of mourning over someone who was apparently a great guy, a philanthropic guy, very charismatic

person. But at the same time, it's also, this has

turned out to be a very, very important and multifaceted business story that has consumed a lot

of press attention. Yeah, the backdrop is, Fast and Furious is the most important franchise for

Universal Pictures. Universal Pictures has struggled for a number of

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